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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1885
Page
5
Industrial spreads show employers hiring in mills and shops while wages and benefits stabilize amid a difficult downturn. The piece notes growing enterprise in metals, furniture, and machinery, with unions expanding and factories planning increased output, including plans for new plants and training schools.
A Pittsburgh plate glass company adds mirror manufacture to its products and moves toward price control via a United Adhesive meeting. The meeting aimed to discuss metal interta ta and form an association to regulate prices. Wage details were not given, but likely to follow under the umbrella of craft trusts.
A March game at Midway concluded with Hy Hervey Chambert leading Hy to a favorable result. Details read uncertain due to fragmentary OCR but indicate a decisive score and standout performances by Chambert.
A correspondent calls state attention to jail sanitation and public health reform. He urges county boards to strengthen health bureaus, improve decency and care in jails, and promote prevention through cleanliness pure air safe water and nutritious food. He warns that neglect leads to disease and death, and that the medical profession must take action now.
The Moundsville term ends as Powell and Clark are acquitted of felony burglary at W. W. Smith's store. Other defendants, including Micajah Gutta and Richard McVaddeo, were tried or acquitted. The court notes mixed outcomes, with witnesses and attendance cited in cost claims. The state contemplates pursuing other charges in Marshall County. The West Virginia penitentiary board met to discuss convict libraries and newspapers funded by visitor funds, while the Ik & OQ railroad to coal works line is finished and a guardhouse project proceeds.
The piece reports multiple local items: Jackson’s larceny case, gas work costs for the penitentiary, pending proposals, Ringgold Academy appoints Professor J. W. P. Reed as principal with mid August departure, Ex Sheriff L. I. Gray’s wheat harvest plans, Samuel Dorsey’s return at ninety six, and Miss Mary Roberta resigning from the bank telephonist post effective July 1.
Mrs. J. W. Bradshaw wed Edith Springer at four o clock Thursday night in her home. They head to Valley Falls for their new life, amid a small circle of relatives and friends. Local notes mention visitors, a new barber chair, fashion gossip, and county court actions with various town updates.
A brief strike occurred at Riverside works Friday night over increased wheel distance for coke and later resolved. Guards at the state penitentiary received their congeast week and vacancies may be filled by unemployed locals. Several social notices list residents visiting, with Miss Maggie Evans and Miss Magee McGraw among those in town. Other items mention a nearby accident near the furnace and the Wheeling Company steel plant project uplifting local prospects.
A garbled Riverside note mentions the Order of United Workmen of city, a transfer between lodges, and references medical terms and relief for pains in infants and mothers, implying a health aid or charitable act connected to a church community.
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